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ORIGINAL: brian brian
is the border color around the white factors part of the hard-coding? then maybe it would still work as the border would show up?

Here is a quick and dirty look.
It also highlights another problem with changing the Japanese counter scheme.
The Chi-Com counters are linked in some strange way.
Whatever color the Japanese counter is. The interior color of the Chi-Coms changes to it also.
Big reason why yellow was canned.

The screen shot illustrates it perfectly.
With some work an off-white could be used. And a different color scheme for China worked on also.

Hey thanks so much! A pity the hard-coding of the white-print units changes the unit symbol box and unit name too. I'm guessing the aircraft bitmaps can't be changed?

What about this idea - make just the IJN ships in white with red letters? That was my original inspiration. Ideally the NAVs, CV planes, some FTR, and the various long range naval planes could go that route (and I guess the MAR units too) but it looks like the plane bitmaps preclude that.

Could we see just an example of red-on-white ships? Use a bright red.


edit: errrrr, nevermind, just realized the ships would have bitmaps just like the planes


Anyhow thanks for all you've done for the game!



I've messed around with changing WiF counters in Cyberboard, making a set of Territorials in any likely controlling major power's colors, for example, and fixing up the Classic TRS and SUB counters that change factors and costs in SiF. It made a very elegant, playable set. But I've never got beyond that, though my next goal was to change the Netherlands to a bright Orange. (On those I was hoping for pretty bright tint to the Orange, a Day-Glow version perhaps). Never tried changing the Japanese to white in that but perhaps one day.

A game of World in Flames with all the maps and counters laid out is quite a colorful sight. The glossy counters and bright tints look good, and I hope any and all tinting decisions can be strong to simulate the glossiness of the counters. But that's just me. I always like the one house in the town that looks it swam in from the Caribbean amidst the American ocean of Pastel, Pastel, everything Pastel. ZZZZzzzzzzzzz.

I'll work on some examples so you can look at. They may not be very pretty.

The bitmaps for ships and planes can be modified quite a bit. With work.
I'm no artist for that level of modding though.

ORIGINAL: WarHunter

ORIGINAL: brian brian
is the border color around the white factors part of the hard-coding? then maybe it would still work as the border would show up?

Here is a quick and dirty look.
It also highlights another problem with changing the Japanese counter scheme.
The Chi-Com counters are linked in some strange way.
Whatever color the Japanese counter is. The interior color of the Chi-Coms changes to it also.
Big reason why yellow was canned.

The screen shot illustrates it perfectly.
With some work an off-white could be used. And a different color scheme for China worked on also.

If you (or others), could put together a list of "hard coded" colors, I might be able to look at fixing those. It should only take a few minutes to investigate and perhaps only a few minutes more to recode so the colors are dynamic - based on the colors in the CSV files. Best would be to email those lists to me directly (SHokanson@HawaiianTel.net), rather than rely on my seeing posts in threads.

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I do like all the various color combinations.[:)]

WarHunter

I don't know if you are still doing mods for MWIF, but if you are, could I ask you to test out a "German Allies pack"?

These are suggested colours for Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. I was inspired by Post 132 above and the glorious Hungarian colours you chose. I could not quite match the colours you obtained for Hungary but the red and green you chose are absolutely perfect.

If you are interested would you mind posting a few counters using these suggested colour schemes please?

ORIGINAL: warspite1

WarHunter

I don't know if you are still doing mods for MWIF, but if you are, could I ask you to test out a "German Allies pack"?

These are suggested colours for Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. I was inspired by Post 132 above and the glorious Hungarian colours you chose. I could not quite match the colours you obtained for Hungary but the red and green you chose are absolutely perfect.

If you are interested would you mind posting a few counters using these suggested colour schemes please?

The Finnish one looks somewhat like a Swedish white print. Maybe the Swedish counters should be changed as well?

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: warspite1

WarHunter

I don't know if you are still doing mods for MWIF, but if you are, could I ask you to test out a "German Allies pack"?

These are suggested colours for Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. I was inspired by Post 132 above and the glorious Hungarian colours you chose. I could not quite match the colours you obtained for Hungary but the red and green you chose are absolutely perfect.

If you are interested would you mind posting a few counters using these suggested colour schemes please?

The Finnish one looks somewhat like a Swedish white print. Maybe the Swedish counters should be changed as well?

warspite1

Damn, I forgot about the Swedes. The colours should be inverted.

WOW, I have re-discovered this game and the community around this game. I am VERY impressed on these mods and other aspects in the forum for the game, good job folks!

I am very excited we can mod the game, it's exactly what this old grognard needed... and I can take the game with me on the laptop.

Move over WiF Box, looks like I will be ordering your new and improved cousin this weekend!

OK. Am I just missing it, or what? How do you change the background color for the land units? Warhunter, your work is great, but please share the secret.

ORIGINAL: blumust10ac

OK. Am I just missing it, or what? How do you change the background color for the land units? Warhunter, your work is great, but please share the secret.

You have to change the RGB code, to change the colors. Check out this thread.

tm.asp?m=3498626&mpage=1&key=

ORIGINAL: blumust10ac

OK. Am I just missing it, or what? How do you change the background color for the land units? Warhunter, your work is great, but please share the secret.

Look in the original Khaki in Flames thread, forgot how that one is named, but it is refered in the KiF threads.

Ok, dummy me. Figured out that if you don't install the map data, the land units will not change. Thanx to Axel for his extreme patience.

New Medal for extreme patience.

LOL - should have looked it up for you, but was a weekend away and had only my iPad.
Nice colours for the ribbon! If you have the smaller version I will wear them proudly!

I can make it any size you like. Let me know.

A post just to thank you all for your hard work ^^

Hello everyone.
I'm a newbie on this forum but not to Wif. Even if I did not had an occasion to play since 2006. I just acquired the computer version and I'm very pleased. Thank you for all this amazing job (and despite quite a few bugs ). I already changed to Khif, and looked to the great job done to change colors of many other nations. I'm sorry if I missed something obvious, but I didn't find how to download this mod. Thank you very much and excuse my english, I'm just a poor frenchman.

Right above the sticky posts at top right you should see "Display topics from last:" with a drop down arrow beside the current setting of 365 days. Use the drop down to select "All topics".

Then you'll see the threads on page two and three which are older than one year. Probably you are looking for this one:

tm.asp?m=3589430

That was near the top of the second page. You may find others you like.

It was so obvious... [8|] Thanks! [:)]

You're doing a great work but I cannot understand your choice for the colour of Italian units. If you want change the standard light green of the original units you must remember that the "national" colour of the italian army in WWII was the "grigioverde" graygreen. So please rethink your choice. Thanks.[;)]